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A review of lunar meteorite impact-melt clast compositions and ages
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Cohen, Barbara A. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Description | One of the important outstanding goals of lunar science is understanding the bombardment history of the Moon and calibrating the impact flux curve for extrapolation to the Earth and other terrestrial planets. Obtaining a sample from a carefully-characterized interior melt sheet or ring massif is a reliable way to tell a single crater's age. A different but complementary approach is to use extensive laboratory characterization (microscopic, geochemical, isotopic) of float samples to understand the integrated impact history of a region. Both approaches have their merits and limitations. In essence, the latter is the approach we have used to understand the impact history of the Feldspathic Highland Terrain (FHT) as told by lunar feldspathic meteorites. |
| File Size | 2018179 |
| Page Count | 5 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20090020162 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1rg0qf64 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2008-09-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration Geochronology Hypervelocity Moon Meteorite Craters Selenology Geochemistry Projectile Cratering Impact Melts Meteorite Collisions Massifs Meteoritic Damage Meteorites Lunar Craters Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
